Nominations that deduplicate themselves.

You can tune the hard-match behaviour per event: block duplicate phone submissions outright when maxNominationsPerPhone is 1 per category, or allow them and just flag with a warning. For most awards the block is the right default — it prevents the same nominator from stuffing the pool on behalf of their preferred candidate.

The dedupe check also runs at public submission time. If a nominator re-submits the same phone, the form shows a soft warning without leaking any nominator PII — the endpoint returns only { exists: boolean }. They can still submit if they genuinely believe it is a different person.

TikTok is prioritised over Instagram in the UI because Ghanaian awards nominees are more consistent about their TikTok handle than their Instagram. Both signals surface as amber badges — they are hints, not blocks. You decide whether “Ama Mensah” and “Ama Mensa” are the same person.

Clusters let you expand, review, and decide. If they are genuinely different people, you label them as unique and move on. The system surfaces the signal — you make the call.

Pool holds every raw nomination the public submitted, clustered by dedupe signal. Groups holds your merges — a NominationGroup is an organiser-built aggregation of multiple raw nominations into a single canonical nominee, with a side-by-side chooser for picking which name, phone, email, TikTok, and Instagram become canonical. Contestants holds the nominees you have promoted: full Contestant documents with 4-letter short codes generated server-side, ready for voting.

Promote in one click. Split a merge if you made a mistake — member nominations go back to the pool with status=pending. Reject a nomination with a reviewer note that persists in the audit log. Every action is logged so you can show a losing candidate exactly why their nomination was dismissed.

Airdrop or email the .vcf to your phone, tap it, and every finalist lands in your contacts in one tap — name, phone in E.164, email, primary TikTok handle, the category they qualified in, and the date they were first nominated. No Instagram in the export — by design. On iPhone: Files → share sheet → Contacts. On Android: Files → open with Contacts → import.

The print-ready HTML is a clean two-column layout that prints at A4 or saves to PDF — useful for boardroom reviews, or for the panel meeting where you need a physical list on the table.